aiqbench analysis
This research introduces JFTA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models on their ability to interpret fault tree diagrams and assist in complex system diagnostics through multi-turn dialogue. By converting visual fault trees into textual representations, the study tests model robustness against simulated user errors and long-range recovery tasks, with Gemini 2.5 Pro currently leading performance metrics. The work highlights a critical frontier for AI applications in industrial maintenance: enhancing LLMs to reliably navigate structured engineering logic and recover from ambiguous inputs.
JFTA-Bench: Evaluate LLM's Ability of Tracking and Analyzing Malfunctions Using Fault Trees
arXiv:2603.22978v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the maintenance of complex systems, fault trees are used to locate problems and provide targeted solutions. To enable fault trees stored as images to be directly processed by large language models, which can assist in tracking and analyzing malfunctions, we propose a novel textual representation of fault trees. Building on it, we construct a benchmark for multi-turn dialogue systems that emphasizes robust interaction in complex environments, evaluating a model's ability to assist in malfunction localization, which contains $3130$ entries and $40.75$ turns per entry on average. We train an end-to-end model to generate vague information to reflect user behavior and introduce long-range rollback and recovery procedures to simulate user error scenarios, enabling assessment of a model's integrated capabilities in task tracking and error recovery, and Gemini 2.5 pro archives the best performance.
Abstract:In the maintenance of complex systems, fault trees are used to locate problems and provide targeted solutions. To enable fault trees stored as images to be directly processed by large language models, which can assist in tracking and analyzing malfunctions, we propose a novel textual representation of fault trees. Building on it, we construct a benchmark for multi-turn dialogue systems that emphasizes robust interaction in complex environments, evaluating a model's ability to assist in malfunction localization, which contains $3130$ entries and $40.75$ turns per entry on average. We train an end-to-end model to generate vague information to reflect user behavior and introduce long-range rollback and recovery procedures to simulate user error scenarios, enabling assessment of a model's integrated capabilities in task tracking and error recovery, and Gemini 2.5 pro archives the best performance.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2603.22978 [cs.AI]
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